Uden en trævl: Without a Stitch

The road to sexual happiness.

Uden  en trævl, AKA Without a Stitch is a 1968 Danish sexploitation comedy film based upon Dagbladet (something like Diary), a Norwegian novel written by Jens Bjørneboe. Directed by Annelise Meineche and starred by the all natural beauty Anne Grete Nissen, Without a Stitch is the visual adaptation of the book. Sexploitation films never looked this classy before. All the nudity and sex scenes are crafted in a way (that is naive compared to other films) you can tell the director was a woman. Most of the action happens either in broad daylight or in places where there is enough light to witness the immense natural beauty Grete has in her D.N.A. 

So, the story is about Lillian (Anne Grete Nissen) a seventeen going eighteen years old that has grown very frustrated because she can't cum when she's fucking boys.  yes, according to the book & film, the main concern of a teenager in 1968 was having an orgasm. Talk about being open minded! Maybe we should start asking our grandparents about it, well, no, that isn't a good idea... 

Nevertheless, she can easily cum while masturbating, but when a boy has a go it's just no good. Fortunately her classmate Brita (Ki-Jo Feza) knows where she can get help (after helping her out herself, as the sworn enemies discover that they can have some fun together diddling their skittles). Brita knows this doctor, Dr. Petersen (Ib Mossin, someone who looks a lot like Adam West) -- "a specialist in the orgasm" -- and Lillian entrusts herself into his care, with all the desired results.

A professional doctor goes the extra mile.

You're getting better Lillian, keep on fucking!

Without a Stitch begins with a bit of girl-on-girl action with Lillian and Brita, as well as Lillian's sex attempts with her believably inexperienced boyfriend Henry (Niels Borksand). So after try after try she ends up pissing his boyfriend off  realizing she needs urgent professional help. Thank god Brita refers her to Dr. Peterson:

     "Are you a ... man ?" I asked.
     ""Yes," he said. "A man of science. First of all, I want to help you, and secondly collect evidence, statistical evidence, on young women's orgasmic inhibitions. I'm planning a work of great impact for gynecological psychiatry. That's my field, you know."

It comes as no surprise that Dr. Petersen is a real hands-on kind of doctor -- though, as he reminds Lillian, this is serious business:

     "Oh, no," I said. "Can't you do it once more ?"
     "We're not here for the fun of it," he answered. "The government's paying for it."

Lillian's problem seems to be that she worries about what her mother and grandmother might think, causing these inhibitions that hold her back. But Dr. Petersen helps her overcome these, and instructs her in his own moral code -- which amounts to that "all sex is good (and more is apparently better ...), as long as no one is hurt or taken advantage of".So, Lillian agrees on the doctor's professional program and visits him on a daily basis while avoiding sexual contact with other man. Once the doctor has masturbated, fucked, sucked, teased, touched, and cum all over her body, he tells Lillian she's ready to have an orgasm.

I'm gonna suck your cum dry!

I'm really good at cunilingus Lillian.

What's a newly sexually uninhibited girl to do ? Hitchhike across Europe, of course. Conveniently her first ride gets her involved in making a pornographic film (they even shave her pussy) which earns her enough money ($4.000 krones) to travel in style. To prove that Lillian isn't just a mindless sex-toy, Bjørneboe (the author of the book) also has her buy some nice books with her new-found cash in order to make her a sexually opened woman that is also interested in polishing her mind.

So she has a few adventures, and even falls in love in Paris. Both the book and movie don't get too kinky, leaving only so many variations on the theme, and as with practically all sex-writing it gets fairly one-note tiresome. Good for Lillian, that she gets wet so often (pretty much everything here seems to set her off), but ultimately that just leaves the fiction feeling pretty soggy. 

Yes, they will cum on your face and you'll swallow.

Double penetration! just what the doctor ordered!

Without a Stitch is fairly harmless erotic fun. The innocent-girl side to it has some appeal: Lillian seems to do little other than have sex, but Dr. Petersen really did his job and she doesn't feel ashamed about recounting what she's done. People usually bash movies based on books, and despite the fact this film is still rather obscure and hard to find, the producers did a pretty good job at preserving the "lighter side of things" the original novel has. Despite the fact, Lillian is traveling Europe fucking strangers, fucking girl on girl and even doing a double penetration threesome and some S & M, the overall feel of the flick is that of an innocent girl discovering the world through her vagina, so that is definitely one of the strong features of the film, staying true to the original novel.

As above mentioned, there is a lot of sex here & there, but the kinkiness is kept to a minimum, thus making the movie feel very, very softcore. Anne Grete is a beautiful actress and seems to have no trouble taking her clothes off in each scene she's in. 

a Scan from an old mag featuring the film.

Oh yeah, doggy style!

Anne Grete Nissen's career would be short lived, three films and that's it. Without a Stitch was her debut and only starring role, & then she would work in Bedroom Mazurka (1970) and Dagmar's Hot Pants, Inc. (1971). However, in Norwegian Wikipedia she is credited for two more films  Kyrkoherden (1970) & Lockfågeln (1971). She was born in  December 14, 1946 in Denmark and she is not to be confused with Annegrethe Nissen, another Danish actress that died in 2013.

 
Amazingly, this Swedish/Danish movie was recently released on a pretty nice-looking English-friendly DVD under the title "Without a Stitch". The feature itself is sexy, albeit strangely innocent, fun, and the disc also includes a truly incredible collection of Swedish skin-flick trailers featuring the films of various Scandinavian lovelies like Christine Lindberg, Marie Lilljedahl , and Maria Forsa.

Believe you me, semen is good for your skin.

a toss to a wet pussy!

Overall, Without a Stitch is fairly entertaining sex comedy from a more innocent time, before the sassy 70's. Despite all the topics the film features (masturbation, sexual abuse from a gynecologist, lesbian sex, porn film making, double penetration, etc)  I can say this is one of the softest soft core films I've ever watched. Worth watching just because the actresses are all natural beauties, and the story itself isn't lame since it's based upon a book. 

 

Here's the first five minutes of the film, as there is no trailer:

PS: I know we promised a review for Last Call, be patient because it's still cooking.